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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
A recent Technisource survey of men and women in information technology found differences in opinion in areas such as compensation and career challenges. Fewer...CNet From ACM TechNews | November 17, 2010
The Cascading Style Sheets Web formatting standard is benefiting from new font technology, which is enabling developers to increasingly use a more polished look...CNet From ACM TechNews | November 12, 2010
The end of 2010 is close and it looks like AT&T is beefing up its device portfolio and app offerings for a day when it isn't the only U.S. operator offering the...CNET From ACM News | November 12, 2010
It's likely you've got an Apple product plugged into your ears when you're listening to music. Making a phone call? One out of every five people buying a smartphone...CNET From ACM News | November 9, 2010
The technology industry should focus more on helping the W3C improve its tests for HTML5 rather than trying to draw conclusions from the tests or from the results...CNet From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2010
Among the scores of fabless chip companies and product design houses in Silicon Valley, Intel is a standout. It's an American high-tech company that not only...CNET From ACM News | November 5, 2010
A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper understanding of ocean life by going faster, farther, and longer than its predecessors—and...CNET From ACM News | November 4, 2010
The director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has seen the future of supercomputing and it can be summed up in three letters: GPU.CNET From ACM News | November 2, 2010
Google likes to think of itself as the world's information barometer, the most complete repository of human intent as measured by the Internet search query. Around...CNET From ACM News | November 2, 2010
Sixty-one percent of U.S. citizens believe the president should be authorized to control or even shut down portions of the Internet in the event key U.S. systems...CNet From ACM TechNews | November 1, 2010
A diplomatic dispute between Japan and China led China in September to temporarily suspend shipments of rare earth elements to Japan, a move that caused a spike...CNet From ACM News | November 1, 2010
When WikiLeaks launched with little fanfare in early 2007, its founders touted it as a unique collaboration that would rely on the same anyone-can-edit software...CNET From ACM News | October 28, 2010
The European Union is sponsoring a multimillion-dollar research project to boost the efficiency of everyday electronics and choke the constant flow of wasted...CNET From ACM News | October 27, 2010
In a record Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released updates today for Windows, Internet Explorer, and the .NET framework that feature fixes for 49 holes, including...CNET From ACM News | October 12, 2010
While official U.S. response has been comparatively mild, the European Union's cybersecurity agency says Stuxnet represents a "paradigm shift" in critical infrastructure...CNET From ACM News | October 12, 2010
The Stuxnet worm has taken the computer security world by storm, inspiring talk of a government-sponsored cyberwar, and of a software program laden with obscure...CNet From ACM News | October 5, 2010